The recent court order blocking shadow libraries like Sci-Hub and LibGen bring to light academia’s paywall crisis and raises the critical question of accessibility—who should hold the keys to ...

There’s a battle going on in academia between the scientific journal publishing companies that have long served as the main platform for peer review and spreading information, and scientists ...

A petition launched on August 10 to restore the book piracy database Z-Library and stop criminal prosecution of the people linked to it has received over 7,000 signatures and support from Sci-Hub, an ...

The Delhi High Court has ordered the blocking of the shadow library Sci-Hub and its mirror sites in India after finding prima facie copyright violations in a suit filed by international publishing ...

The Delhi High Court has ordered authorities to block access to so-called online shadow libraries Sci-Hub, Sci-Net and their mirror domains, in a copyright infringement case, Live Law reported. In its ...

A U.S. court has awarded Elsevier $15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub and a similar website, both of which provide free access to pirated scientific journal articles.

Most scientific literature is published in for-profit journals that rely on subscriptions and paywalls to turn a profit. But that trend has been shifting as various governments and funding agencies ...

Pirate site Sci-Hub has been blocked in Russia after a group of publishers applied to the courts to get service providers to stop serving the site. Springer Nature and Elsevier have both confirmed ...

The umpteenth lawsuit by a group of publishers against the Sci-Hub scientific shadow library has been brought in India, and promises some interesting conclusions. Sci-Hub, created by Alexandra ...

In what marks a heavy blow to the free access of scholarly articles and research papers in India, the Delhi High Court (HC) has ordered the Government to block the shadow library Sci-Hub in India.